COD PIE (II)

Ingredients

• 2 slice cod
• pepper and salt to taste
• 1/2 a teaspoonful of grated nutmeg
• 1 large blade of pounded mace
• 2 oz butter
• 1/2 pint stock No. 107
• a paste crust (see Pastry)
• For sauce
• 1 tablespoonful stock
• 1/4 pint cream or milk
• thickening of flour or butter
• lemon-peel chopped very fine to taste
• 12 oysters

Instructions

1. Lay the cod in salt for 4 hours, then wash it and place it in a dish;
2. season, and add the butter and stock;
3. cover with the crust, and bake for 1 hour, or rather more.
4. Now make the sauce, by mixing the ingredients named above; give it one boil, and pour it into the pie by a hole made at the top of the crust, which can easily be covered by a small piece of pastry cut and baked in any fanciful shape--such as a leaf, or otherwise.